1209 in poetry
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Events
- Guilhem Augier Novella penned A People Grieving for the Death of their Lord, a planhPlanhThe planh or plaing is a funeral lament used by the troubadours, modeled on the medieval Latin planctus. It differed from the planctus in that it was intended for a secular audience...
on the death of Raymond Roger Trencavel - Gui d'UsselGui d'UsselGui d'Ussel, d'Ussèl, or d'Uisel was a turn-of-the-thirteenth-century troubadour of the Limousin. Twenty of his poems survive: eight cansos, two pastorelas, two coblas, and eight tensos, several with his relatives and including a partimen with Maria de Ventadorn...
, in obedience to a papal injunctionInjunctionAn injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that requires a party to do or refrain from doing certain acts. A party that fails to comply with an injunction faces criminal or civil penalties and may have to pay damages or accept sanctions...
from Pierre de CastelnauPierre de CastelnauPierre de Castelnau , French ecclesiastic, was born in the diocese of Montpellier.In 1199 he was archdeacon of Maguelonne, and was appointed by Pope Innocent III as one of the legates for the suppression of the Cathar heresy in Languedoc.In 1202, when a monk in the Cistercian abbey of Fontfroide,...
, ceased composing and writing
Deaths
- Nizami Ganjavi (born 1141), Persian romantic epic poet
- Ruzbihan Baqli (born 1128), Persian poet, mystic, and sufi